Sassacus

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Sassacus (c. 1560–1627)

Massachusett Pequot chief. As a youth he fought the English colonists. Named chief in about 1632, he lost roughly 700 people in one battle of the Pequot War. His death coincided with the virtual destruction of the Pequot nation.

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Sassacus, their sachem, fled to another tribe, after his own people were defeated; but he was murdered by them, and his head was sent to his English enemies.

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